Federer, Nadal and Djokovic pander to plutocrats and charge huge appearance fees. The "trickle down effect" means that tournaments like the Heineken Open now have to pay appearance money for racketeers that many of us have never heard of. It's close to extortion.

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At the end of Federer's first round match at the Australian Open a fawning interviewer asked about his kids and if he had bought coach Stefan Edberg a birthday present - no, by the way, the privilege of knocking up with 'King Roger' was enough of a present apparently.

This comment was made right after Federer's loss to Tsonga in Toronto final. One week later, Federer won Cincinnati Masters, beating in the final Chris Kuerten's favorite player for the 16th time in 16 meetings.

I believe that if this was any GS and Nadal needed to win to advance he would of played better and harder. Not saying he would of beaten a Ferrer like today but i like to think it. Plus no need to have Nole 1 up on him pre AO.